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measure that of St. Duilech. St. Mochoemhog, or Pulcherius, who was 
ten degrees, died in 656 ; Cruimther Fraech, who was nine degrees, was 
a contemporary of St. Columcille, who died in 597 ; St. Larlath of Tuam, 
who was ezght degrees, was a little senior to St. Brendan, and flourished 
about 540; and lastly, St. Mobhi,* surnamed Mac Ui Alda (from Alla, 
a common ancestor with St. Duilech), was uncle to St. Duilech, and seven 
degrees, and his obit is recorded by Tighernach at 630. We may, there- 
fore, taking an average of the dates of these ecclesiastics, all of whom 
were of the race of Conmaicne, son Fergus mac Rosa, assign the year 600 
as about the age in which St. Duilech flourished. 
His festival is the 17th of November; and in the calendar of Christ 
Church he is styled ‘‘ Sanctus Dulech Episcopus et Confessor,’’} though 
in the Martyrology simply ‘‘ Sanctus Dulech Confessor.” { But what- 
ever may have been his ecclesiastical rank, his patronage wasvery limited, 
for, besides the church under consideration, I know of none other where 
he was commemorated, unless Cillduleg,§ which was the Irish name of 
Grange Gorman, was derived from him. ' 
That there was an early local veneration of his memory appears from 
the Feilire of Angus (a composition of the commencement of the ninth 
century), where at his festival, November 17, he is introduced in the 
verse :— 
ba oullech cain clochair. 
With Duilech the beautiful, of Clochar.|| 
After him, in 1171, Maelmuire, or Marian O’Gorman, in his metri- 
cal Calendar, at same day, notices 
ouilech craiboech clochair. 
Duilech the devout, of Clochar. 
* He is to be distinguished from St. Mobhi, surnamed Clairenech, the patron saint of 
Glas Naoidhen (Glasnevin), who died in 544, on the 12th of October; and from Mobhi 
Caillech of Domhnach Broc (Donnybrook), whose day is September 30. The present 
is Mobhi of Cluain Fannabhair, Dee. 13. In the Grange of Milverton, about three miles 
north of Lusk, is an ancient cemetery, with the traces ofa small chapel, called Sé. Movee, 
and near it a holy well, called St. Movee’s Well, at the head of which is a large stone 
supported on rests, like a cromlech, and having a small incised cross. The water of this 
well was believed to possess great virtue in cases of ague and sore eyes. 
+ Obits of Christ Church, p. 71. { Ibid., p. 179. 
§ In 1186 Pope Urban III. confirmed to the Church of the Holy Trinity Cellduleg ; in 
a note on which Archbishop Alan writes Grange Gorman (Regist., fol. 175a, ad calc.). 
King John confirmed the original grants to the same house, specifying the donors’ names, 
and among them ex dono Cithurici filii Absolea (Sitric son of Amlaf) Kealdulig (ib., fol. 
175 b); upon which Archbishop Alan notes Killduleg, i.e. Grangegorman (ib., fol. 176a, 
ad calc.). Luke, Archbishop of Dublin, cire. 1220, confirmed these possessions, and among 
others, Grangiam eorum ultra pontem, que vocatur Kyldulyc ; upon which Alan notes alias 
Cellduleg etiam Gorman (ib. fol. 1766). These entries are worthy of notice, for Arch- 
dall, followed by others, reads Bealdulech, which he identifies with Baldoyle (Monast. 
Hib., p. 148). Mr. D’Alton, on the other hand, makes Kealdulech to be St. Doulaghs 
(Hist. Co. Dublin, p. 225), though elsewhere he returns to Baldoyle (ib., p. 173). 
|| Leabhar Breac, fol. 406 (MS. R. I. A.). 
